GIS Technician

Location: Calgary Headquarters

Position Type: 6-month Contract, salaried

Reports to: Senior Director, Data Quality & Origination 

About Orennia

Orennia provides an all-in-one platform for accurate data, predictive analytics and actionable insights across the energy transition. We drive faster capital allocation decisions and help our clients maximize returns across the solar, wind, storage, power, RNG, CCUS, clean fuels and hydrogen sectors. The technology that powers Orennia’s platform delivers an unparalleled experience, distilling information into actionable insights to give our clients a competitive edge.

As the world decarbonizes its energy stack, trillions in capital need to be deployed. Global investment in the energy transition must quadruple to over $5 trillion annually to stay on the 1.5°C pathway, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. Without accurate data and predictive analytics, developers and investors will struggle to deploy capital efficiently and maximize returns. Orennia’s platform expedites the energy transition with effective and robust information for smarter capital allocation choices.

Why Join Orennia?

People are at the heart of the best technology companies. We’ve brought together some of the industry’s top experts and brightest minds in data orchestration, analytics, software development, and industry insights to uncover opportunities where others can’t. At Orennia, you’ll become part of a collaborative culture and do work that matters. We trust and support each other, ask hard questions and solve complex problems together. Guided by a spirit of inquiry, our team has a product-driven, continuous delivery mindset to drive our innovation forward.

The Opportunity 

As a GIS Technician, you will play a crucial role in collecting, organizing, and maintaining geospatial and technical data. Your expertise will contribute to informed decision-making and platform delivery Our people are passionate and have a strong belief in our mission. Our efforts impact individuals and communities, all the while working toward a net-zero future. If you’re hungry for opportunity, growth, and something meaningful in a dynamic, fun and challenging environment, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with an innovative team of analysts, data scientists, data engineers and software developers on a variety of projects.
• Gather, analyze, interpret and QC technical and geospatial data.
• Create and maintain a high level of data and project standardization, ensuring scalability.

Who You Are

• You have 1+ years of progressive GIS experience including gathering, organizing, and digitizing geospatial data.
• You have experience with desktop GIS software such as QGIS, ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro.
• You have completed the academic portion (if applicable) or graduated from a post-secondary GIS program or equivalent.
• You are comfortable manipulating, creating, organizing and analyzing large-scale linear geospatial data.
• You have a strong attention to detail and have developed QC/QA procedures to ensure data accuracy & validity across various sources. 
• You have basic understanding about the electric infrastructures and are comfortable working with infrastructure geospatial data in the North America.
• Programming, database and software skills in Excel, Python, SQL are considered an asset.
• You have demonstrable passion in the energy transition.
• You can and are excited to work in a fast-paced start-up environment, embrace change and ambiguity.

Why You’ll Love Orennia

At Orennia, you'll join a high performing, people-focused team where everyone has a role to play. We offer our regular, full-time employees a competitive total rewards package, comprehensive health, dental and vision benefits, a savings program that includes company matching, and a learning and development budget to master your craft. In addition, we offer generous time off with regular company holidays, paid vacation days and paid sick days.

We thank all applicants in advance for their interest and for taking the time to apply; however, only applicants invited for an interview will be contacted.

In keeping with our values, Orennia is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Orennia provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability,  genetic information,  service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. Please contact a member of our People & Culture team (hr@orennia.com) should you require accommodation at any point during our interview processes.